{"id":459154,"date":"2026-03-05T16:06:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/459154\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T16:06:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:06:54","slug":"southern-nest-sites-await-return-of-history-making-ospreys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/459154\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern nest sites await return of history-making ospreys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sam Ryde from the charity said a young male, hatched in 2023, had shown an interest in returning to the area, and might form the third pair now that he is of breeding age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he said: &#8220;Because of the long distance of migration, the return rate is about 30%.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Young ospreys who do not return might have fallen prey to crocodiles and jackals, or have been blown out into the Atlantic, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many of the south of England ospreys are ringed but do not carry trackers, so the exact fate of those who are missing is unknown, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Ryde from the charity said a young male, hatched in 2023, had shown an interest in returning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-459154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}